With a tradition of over three hundred years Merck is the oldest pharmaceutical and chemical company in the world. The Chemicals business sector focuses on high-quality chemical and biochemical products, reagents, solvents and sorbents for chromatography, for technically demanding applications in R&D and industry. Many years of experience and innovative product solutions make Merck a preferred partner for laboratories and production.

An outstanding feature of all Merck products is their dependable quality. The quality promise has been part of Merck brand ever since the very beginning.

Calbiochem® (which now includes Oncogene) offers quality general biochemicals including detergents and proteases and immunochemical reagents focused on studying signal transduction pathways, apoptosis, cell cycle and protein chemistry research and disease related pathways.

The Novagen® brand offers world-class protein expression, isolation, Analysis, and purification of genes and their protein products.  With the expansion in proteomics research, the Novagen® brand is well placed to support scientists with tools for sample preparation and high-throughput purification and expression systems.

The NOVABIOCHEM® brand is the industry leader in the manufacture of innovative resins and reagents for peptide synthesis, solid phase organic chemistry and combinatorial chemistry. NOVABIOCHEM® is supplying high quality products to researchers in pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories throughout the world.